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What do I do with baby mice?

My cat caught an adult mouse yesterday and didn't kill it. I don't believe in killing any of God's critters (unless they're going to eat me), so I put it outside. Now my cat has brought me two tiny baby mice still alive. I don't think they can survive on their own, but I put them outside in a liitle can where I put the adult. Any other suggestions? No, I don't want to feed it to my cat or a snake.

Update:

By the way, I'm not angry with my cat. I congratulated him for catching the mice.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Well, what I can suggest is (if they are small things and if the adult is a female):

    1. Tear up newspaper into long skinny strips of paper and place those into a box (which I'm sure you've already done). They like to cuddle, borrow and keep warm. I suggest you get a box NOT made of paper.

    2. Get the mice something to eat, like small slices of apples or small chunks of carrots.

    3. Without a mother, unless the babies can move on their own, see and feed by themselves, they will not survive. Prepare yourself.

    4. Water is essential. Go to the pet shop and see what type of water bottles they have. Get small ones meant for hamsters. (Might as well get yourself a cage there as well.)

    That's all the advice I can give.

  • 1 decade ago

    Sister, your respect for life is commendable. Do what you are capable of doing to help, and know that the rest is in God's hands.

    You are NOT responsible for your cat's actions -- it was simply being a cat (as God made it), so don't take on any guilt, okay?

    I believe that God has a plan for everyone, and everything. Sometimes I wonder if death (especially death of the young) is God's *UNDO* button. For some reason, that creature didn't start out life quite right, so God calls it back to him (and maybe, gives it another chance).

    If I were you, I would make a *nest* for the babies of some soft material, and attempt to feed them and keep them warm. Some times it works, many times it doesn't. But we're all here to do the best we can, aren't we?

    May HE bless your tender heart and caring impulses -- value these gifts that HE has given you, and never hesitate to use them.

  • artist
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    bypass to the interior of reach vet or petstore and purchase the milk powder that they use to feed kittens that have lost thier mom. combination up an particularly small little bit of this and then dip the top of a skinny cloth into it until at last it drips milk and then flow the top to the mouses mouth and permit the milk drip into the mouth. at last the toddler will start up nursing on the cloth. in case you intend to launch this animal back into the wild you may desire to establish actual touch is particularly minimum. Now in spite of this no count if it rather is an particularly youthful mouse it won't understand the thank you to bypass to the bathing room. you'll want a heat, moist cloth and you will might desire to apply the cloth to stroke the mouses hind end to stimulate defication.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Your cat is just being a cat. If you really want to try to save the mice, take them all to a vet. They'll know the best way to try to save them.

  • ceprn
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    "I don't believe in killing any of God's critters"

    How naive. How do you survive, then - everything you eat was alive at one time. And what about bugs or spiders? Do you let cockroaches infest your living area?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Go to the pet store and get your self some rodent milk and a feeding device for them, nurse them your self. I have done it before when I was young, and they lived.

  • beez
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Gather them all up and take them to a natural environment.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Take them to the woods and set them free.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yuck! mice!

    I would flush them down the toilet.

  • a school's science lab might like them. kids like to look at things like that.

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